Who Should Read This Book

As with many of the books in the Cookbook series, Windows Server Cookbook can be useful to anyone who has to deploy, administer, or automate Windows Server 2003 or Windows 2000. This book can serve as a great reference for those who have to work with Windows Server on a day-to-day basis. And because of all the scripting samples, this book can be really beneficial to programmers who want to accomplish various tasks in an application. For those without much programming background, the VBScript solutions are straightforward and should be easy to follow and expand on.

If you like the format of this book, but crave more recipes on Active Directory, I highly recommend checking out Active Directory Cookbook. It is similar to this book in structure, except has over 320 recipes devoted only to Active Directory. I gave up trying to remember all the nerd knobs and tweaks you could do to Active Directory; I wrote Active Directory Cookbook so I would have them all in one place. O'Reilly is in the process of publishing additional Cookbooks on topics such as Windows XP, Exchange Server, and Windows Server Security to name a few.